If you depict someone or something, you show what that person or thing is like—either in some kind of image (such as a drawing, painting, photograph, or movie), or with words.

DEPICT meaning: 1. to represent or show something in a picture or story: 2. to represent or show something in a…. Learn more.

DEPICT definition: to represent by or as if by painting or other visual image; portray; delineate. See examples of depict used in a sentence.

To depict someone or something means to show or represent them in a work of art such as a drawing or painting. ...a gallery of pictures depicting Nelson's most famous battles. [VERB noun]

1. To represent in a picture or sculpture: Each page's border has designs that depict forest animals. 2. To represent in words; describe: stories that depict life on the frontier.

Depict, portray, sketch imply a representation of an object or scene by colors or lines, or by words. Depict emphasizes vividness of detail: to depict the confusion of departure.

May 5, 2025 · depict (third-person singular simple present depicts, present participle depicting, simple past and past participle depicted) At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, …